Hello
oone of the comments I received in my thesis is the way I wrote multiply
for exampl the grid size was 200 x 100 or the oil production was 10 x 10E9
Hello one of the comments I received in my thesis is the way I wrote multiplyfor exampl the grid size was 200 x 100 or the oil production was 10 x 10E9I used x and I got a circle on it and in some cases where I used * I got a circle as well
how to write multiply in this case?
Probably, you need to be consistent with the symbol. In other words, you can use x or * but not both in your thesis .
the * was definetely a mistake, however it did not come until chapter four . but the three chapters before it I was using only x and teh x got circled from the beginning of the thesis.
It's not that wikipedia is always correct, but i think it is in this case:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_sign
For the 10 x 10E9 it would have been better as 1010 or as 10 ⨯ 109. This might have been encircled because of the "E".
For grids, I would always use 100 ⨯ 200 and have never had a problem with this. [Noting that I am typing in a sans serif font, and the difference between ⨯ (multiply) and x (the lowercase letter) is not much, whereas there would be a considerable difference when using Times New Roman]
I disagree with using * in text but I guess that many do use it because programming languages use it for multiplication.
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